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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Puck The most unkindest cut of all is to be
found in the average eightdollar suit of clothes.
PRINCESS BEATRICE of England, tits rumored,
is to be created Duchess in her right, so
that her son by Prince Battenberg will inherit
peerage.
ALEXANDER HAAILToN's place, whence the
famous Federalist went forth to fight his fatal
duel, has just been cut up into lots, and will
soon contain ninety houses built for busy New
Workers
TEXAS Siftings Wife ito third husband) If
you feel so unwell John, think we had better
send for my old family physician. Third Hus-
band somewhat hastily)-No, my dear, would
prefer to send for some one else
EVERYBODY who passes the house of Mr.. JUS
tice Horace Gray, the handsome and clever
bachelor of the United States Supreme Court, is
building on K street, Washington. remarks upon
its queerness. To all such comment Judge Gray
makes the happy reply that he is building the
house to suit himself and his library. He has
the finest private law library in the United
States.
A SAN FRANCISCO justice of the peace formu-
lated an oath for Chinese witness like the fol-
lowing: 81 swear by the Chinese gods, the for
eigners' gods, the God of heaven and earth, that
if / am liar in this my head will be cut off
the same as this chickens head is cut off, and
that | will be drowned in the and never
get back to China" and while repeating the oath
the Chinaman held a cleaver in his hand. with
body when he had finished the words.
AT the beginning of the winter term at
Wellsville College Miss Helen FL. Schafer viii
assume the duties of president for the remainder
of the year. Miss Schafer has been connected
with the college for ten years as professor of
mathematics, and has built up a very strong de-
partment with over three hundred pupils. She
Is a graduate of Oberlin College. and her parents
are now residents of Oberlin. but her childhood
was passed in the northern part of New York
State. She was for some years connected with
associated with Prof. w. T. Harris and others
notable in school and college training
Miss Schafer is master of arts and woman Of
great executive ability.
SAID Frog papa to Frog mamma,
Where is our little daughtera'
Said Frog mamma to Frog papa
'sShe's underneath the water.
Then down the anxious father went,
And there indeed De found her,
A-ticking tadpoles till they kicked
Their tails off all around her.
II. B. Tabb, in the independent.
WASHINGTON IDYL.
Leaf by leaf the fall,
Drop by drop the rain comes down;
One by one, with gripsacks small,
Congressman arrive in town.
Washington Critic.
ssHow beautiful said she. tonight
Appear the heavenly orbs bright"
Ouoth he, 1.-TWO orbs divine, 1 see,
Are brighter than the stars to me-"
And soft and low the evening breeze
Noaned round them through the chestnut trees.
oil City Blizzard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
About Max O,RelI.
New York Com

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Max O'Rell, whose real name is NJ Paul
Blouet has English manners. French looks
and an Irish nom de plume He born in
France, married in England, aud has Irish
blood in him. his grandfather having married
Miss O'Rell, of Ireland. HIS is scarcely of
medium height, and has broad shoulders and
big limbs His eyes blue. and his hair.
what little he has, is black. Like all Partisan
Frenchmen, he takes pride in q small, but ar
tsticaily twisted mousfaehe His mission to
this country is TO lecture English customs
and life. In conversation he is charming, and
speaks English fuently. Conversing with the
writer, he said that he did not intend TO write a
book about America, his stay of ak months
would not give him sufficient time to study closely
the Yankee character. He has been living six
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

The saloon keepers, or some of them, have
started in again on their work of violating the
law and defying public sentiment. For
little time they have been comparatively quiet,
but their inherent lawlessness has come to
the surface, and the law is once more defied.
There is but one way to stop this, and that is
to put one or more of these white-aproned
criminals behind the bars of the work house
and set them to breaking stone for the public
good. And it will come to this. Temporarily
they may be able to escape with small fines,
by appealing to Dogberries whose courts are
run for revenue only. or By risking an appeal
to court where juries have not hitherto as
sessed a work-house sentence; but there will
come end to this state of affairs sooner or
later, and the screws will be put to these
criminals and law breakers in a way that will
open their eyes and make their heads ache
It may take further legislation to accomplish
this, but the legislation will come if necessary
There are indications, as we said there would
be. that in relying upon the Criminal Court
a place of refuge, the law breakers may
have been reckoning without their host. But
whatever may be done now, the man who
thinks that the liQuor-seller will be permitted
to violate the law with IMMUNITY and at his
own sweet will, is too big a fool to be in any
kind of business. The day will come, and
that speedily, when these precious gentlemen
will wish they had taken the Journals advice
and obeyed the law Thew are simply treas
uring up wrath against the day of wrath.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

SOUTH CAROLINA regulators" who have
been whipping white girl. who had behaved
indiscreetly, are said TO be initiating the Indi-
ana "White Caps" Well, hardly. South
Carolina regulators began business many long
years ago, and, though their attentions are
usually confined to colored citizens near cleo
themselves in practice by whipping women.
The truth must be confessed that the
Hoosiers, not the Carolinians, are the imi-
%aAc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
New Republican Paper in New York.

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-The New York Press
Company was organized to-day by she election
ton, Robert P. Porter, Eilihu Root. Marvelle w.
Cooper and Edward a. Ammidown, of New
York; Geo. West of Bal.ston Sna; James
Phillips of Fischburg Mass. Mr. Haston was
elected president, Mr.. Porter vice-presioent and
secretary, and Mr. Ammidown treasurer. The
Press will make its first appearance about Dee.
two-cent Sunday issue. There will also be a
weekly edition. The paper will be Republican
in politics and will advocate the protective pol
icy. Messrs. Hatton and Porter will be the cd
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

TIE New York Sun, by way Of feeler,
suggests Cleveland and Coleman as the Dem
ocratic ticket for 1888 Coleman is of Cali
fornia, and his only claim to public recogni-
ton il that ne was head of the vigilance
committee which once rid California of gam
blers, murderers and ballot-box suffers. We
do not see any particular necessity for Vice
president Of that kind, but perhaps the
Democratic managers could make him useful
as leader OF reform within the party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

By invitation, General Harrison will address
the citizens of Hendricks county, or moro
specifically, the Lincoln League. at Danville,
on Saturday afternoon next at $50 o'clock. A
number of Republicans will go over on the IL
o'clock train, in the morning, and the
day will doubtless be made the occasion
for Republican rally and revival anent the
approaching campaign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

THE Philade lphia Press publishes the por-
traits of eleven of the leading Socialists of
that city. Their names are Frederick
Fritzche, w. Leibknecht. Carl Marx. A.
Bebel, H. Becker, Julius Vahltelk, Hans
Most, E. r.. Schweitzer, f. Lasalle, III. Hess,
and Otto Dammer. We infer from the names,
though the Press does not say SO, that these
persons are not identified, with the native
Arariran rnnvamant
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Official Red Tape.

Courier-Journal's Washington Letter.
General Poe is stationed Detroit. In n
violent gale he saws government vessel wrecked
with all aboard. He quickly chartered a tug aud
sent it to rescue the men. When he sent tho
bill to Washington To pay for the services of the
tug the account returned as disallowed.
owing to the fact ..tha. no bids had been opened
for the furnishing of tug TO rescue the drown
ing seamen." The dignity of an Office should be
as iealousy guarded its honesty. No laws
are so good as those of common sense. and hair
spl,tings are neither wise nor desired.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

GEN. LEW WALLACE was in the city yes
terday, and was pursued even here by tele-
grams asking him to name dates for lectures
this winter We are authorized to state that
General Wallace viii not lecture this season,
and can make no dates for anybody. Els time
is entirely devoted to literary work, he being
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

teen years in England. and made study of their
characteristics. from the servant ia his employ
to the queen on the throne. During the France
German war NJ. Blouet Was officer and went
through many battles untouched. In the
fight with the Communists of Paris he was shot
and he says that it grieves him to think he was
wounded by his own countrymeu
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

In view Of the statement by st. Petersburg
papers that the Gar was extremely gratified
ut the cordiality of his recent reception by
Emperor William and Prince Bismarck, the
report that Russian>troops are being massed
on the German and Austrian frontiers seems
to indicate that the ruler of the Russians did
not regard the cordially as entirely genuine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

HAND PAINTED satin banners, individual
sutter-dishes, badges and babies, seem to have
figured with considerable prominence in the
proceedings of the W. C. T. q. convention at
Nashville, last week. There was also an
abundance of "gush." II it were not for the
>ssnrance Of the somewhat exnberant press
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

THE death of Miss Emma Lazarus which is
announced in New York papers, is loss to lit
erature. Her name has been familiar to maya
zine readers and her work has attracted much
attention both in this country and in En- gland.
Her productions were mainly in the form of
verse; but that she could express herself in
prose with elegance and strength was shown by
a discussion in regard to the merits of the He
brew faith. in which she became engaged at one
time. and by other occasional papers miscel-
laneous topics. Her earlier writings were of
classic character, and evinced high degree of
scholarship and devotion to prose literature,
but in her later years she devoted herself al
most exclusively to subjects pertaining to the
Jews. and there found her highest inspiration.
Previous to her fatal illness she was engaged in
a study of Hebrew, and was at work on a SER
les of translations of Jewish bards of medieval
Spain. Miss Lazarus. who a member of a
prominent New York family, suffered from a
throat disease of the same nature as that which
carried off General Grant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

THE announcement is made that Secretary
Whitney continues to improve. It has been
gratifying to note his steady convalescence
since the New York election, though
of his active disposition must find it rather
irksome to spend several weeks in recovering
when he could have done it just well in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
The Journals Platform, Too.

st. Lonis Globe Democrat
Abolish German instruction in the public
schools, and pay better salaries for teaching En-
glish. That's our platform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

Mr.. BARNUMs sacred" white elephant seems
not to have borne charmed life. Perhaps he
left his supernatural qualities behind when he
gave up his situation as idol to accept an en-
sgagement with vulgar circus
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

THERE is reason to suspect that the Bridge
port, Conn, people, who are accustomed to run
to fires, promptly changed their usual habits
and viewed the burning of the greatest show
on earth from afar, when they found that the
'taggers" Were abroad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
No Decollete Gowns lover I

No DecoIIete Gowns s.Over There"
Phfiadeipha Press
II Anthony Comstock has anything to say
aboutis. the angels will all have to wear jerseys
and divided skirts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

MISS NINA VAN ZANDT, Of Chicago, should be
reminded of the fact that the time has long
since gone by when girl could make herself
interesting by dining off a single strawberry
and the half of chickens wing. If Miss Nina
will resume a diet of beefsteak, boiled cabbage
and other substantials, she may in time succeed
in capturing real husband instead of proxy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

THE wife of Secretary Whitney is reported by
a Washington correspondent as saying: 81 shall
not begin my little social matters until January;
that is. not officially For the benefit of
dering public. the correspondent should kindly
ascertain what office Mrs. Whitney holds
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

SAID Frog papa to Frog mamma,
Where is our. little daughter!"
Said Frog mamma to Frog papa,
''Shes underneath the water
Then down the anxious father went,
And there indeed ne found her,
A-tickling tadpoles till they kicked
Their tails off all around her.
j. B. Tabb in the Indepe
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-10-06
RURAL JoYs.


4 Eek winker We were "msd a. hops'
When Cousin Joe came into town,
z Ard talked about his stock and crops,
And playedthe tiresome country clown"
\ We fslt sshamed of him--his dress,
n His speech, his hands, his awkward fest;
We groaned 10 hear him, "Wal, / gnessl'
And shuddered when we saw him eat.
I But now IT'S different, you know;
We close the house, leave town in style,
And 60 to see ''dear Cousin Joe,"
And live upon the farm a while.
Those 'caows" now furnish US with cream,
With which new ''taters'' go quite well;
We also have Joe's double team
And drive about tremendous swell.
We don't 30 much mind sitting down
And eating with our cousin here;
And somehow he's not such a clown
As formerly--its very queerI
HIS country ways no more annoy,
Nor do we think him disgrace;
His company we quite enjoy
+ In fact, the farms a splendid place!
Our city neighbors think we go
To Newport (Which we can't afford);
Meanwhile we visit Cousin Joe,
And never think to pay our board.
And when the season ends, and we
Have had to foot no hotel bill,
Joe's "Come again" we hear with glee,
And say: 20, thank you, Joe; we will"
--TYd- Rita.
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as half-grown boy, but from the sunny We
randa beneath it seemed Of the familiar GOOSE
quill size to one who sat there and saw 1t
move at every quiver Of the zephyr. a. quick
es the will Of the wind before that will had
been expressed.
1tseemed, indeed, like pen still obeying
the pulse in the human wrist-the pulse of
aphantom hand long busy with the concerns
Of life and destiny, and now from the clouds
Of spirit realms reaching down invisible
fingers to write against the naked air, which
retains no impressions.
Or, others less inclined to see q human
motive in the Golden Quill, might have
compared its eager finding motion to the
highly electrified conditions of faithful pen
warmed for thirty years by one fond and
daring hand now palsied in the dust, and
with its guide departed, the Golden Quill
still poised itself as if listening in the winds
for its kind old master and holding ready for
him to resume his tasks.
A lightning-rod man had come along and
applied the Golden Quill to a no less cleo
trified but less spiritual application.
He had pierced it with the shaft Of his
conductor and, so to speak, impaled 1t while
yet alive, and had then secured it above and
below by small golden balls, so that it could
neither rise nor descend.
A larger ball representing the earth was
situated just below the Golden Quill; and this
supported the cross Of metal which held ex-
tended the golden letters for the points of
the compass: North, South, East and
West.
The pediment or gable over which the
quill was set rose out of the middle Of the
library buildings face and had two doors
opening upon balcony or smaller upper
veranda, which was on a level with
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eyes dark and piercing, yet soft, and eye
brows that were like the wings of black
birds. A mustache Of black further gave
rich expression to Euphorian's brunette
skin; his spine was straight and the more
slender and graceful from its delicacy of dis
eased origin, but his sisters spine caused her
to be under the frequent treatment of the
surgeon, and Euphorian paid the bills.
This sister. to add to his pangs, had mar
ried, yielding to the ardent affections which
they both inherited, and by her marriage
was the more helpless and dependent.
His father was incapacitated by his disease
from doing other work than keeping news
paper and book stand in public place in Q
large city, whence Euphorian had obtained
his first employment a child in . news
paper ofice in some humble situation, and
80 rose to be Q reporter and ultimately q
special correspondent.
Fettered thus by origin and imperfect edu-
cation, every triumph he obtained was the
result Of hard toll and midnight application,
until the great civil war released him from
the captivity and annoyance Of managing
EDITORS desk, to come abroad and tala the
ful war KS, =. .,,,,ss 80 ~ Sp@ 80 ~ ..'s,
IN the open air of sSxss. and Of mountain
his health improved; he broke the barriers
Of obscurity and gained an enviable name.
There was no disparity in his engagement
to Doris Mott II he could maintain himself
In the reputation he had won for Doris,
though tepdcrly educated and Of an excel.
lent family, had no other property expecta-
tons than ct the ultimate division Of mod
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lawn. One of these doors led to the small
chamber where slept Euphorian Waite, a
guest upon the mountain.
The other door opened into the larger
chamber over the library where slept an
other guest, Doris Mott.
They were already in love.
To woman never in love before, barely
twenty, and beloved by man more than
handsome, like Euphorian Waite, the salts
faction was complete.
To man in love madly, with an ardent
spirit, but poor and struggling to maintain
himself and his dependent parents and in
valid sister, the confidence of being beloved
was agony.
He sst on the long balcony below Of even
ings - Doris sat above near her chamber
among the fragrant trees which embowered
her with their tops like . golden bird in its
nest, and wondered when he would be indie
pendent enough to call her his wife and say
Goodnight" no more with reluctant kisses
when she passed into her easement and
closed IL bolts, but he now repaired to his.
through the twin easement, and lay down Il
the torture Of love, uncertainty and poverty
Then the Golden Quill above would seem
to groan, a. It moved in the summer might
breeze, and repeated his sighs; and at morn
ing the dews upon the balcony floor would
seem TO have been the tears shed BY tht
spirits Of the young blossoming trees.
He would descend TO the great veeandi
and look up toward h,r easement in tn
morning, 10 repeat with hsr the casoling and
twittsring Of matin love al the birds wer'
making about the lawn.
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gap, saw Euphronia ride through the gate,
ali bronze and sinew, with eyes like meteors,
and those eyes were in moment resting
their long lashes upon her own.
When she colld see him, disengaged from
his arms, she almost cried out with fear, 80
lean and famished he seemed, like deer
after winter, all eyes and tendons.
The Golden Quill was pointing south above
the library pediment, and she saw Eupho,
Rams eyes follow her own to the spot, where
Hke an oracle his fate seemed to be.
His throat twitched at the indication.
II was consumption that made his great
gazelle eyes 80 light and yet 90 fierce.
"My darling, he said, 1--WE shall be happy.
Nv success has made my new employer very
indulgent. / have set aside something for
my sister, and leased for my parents q little
cottage. Now, now is the time to wed. 1t
may be-"
He glanced superstitiously at the Golden
Quill.
It pointed south and groaned.
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as his sweetness Of nature or uncommon
pride seemed to demand; for he knew the
world and had from somewhere back, or in
the selfassertion 0f Elie authorspirit, con-
sciousness of what fw6h his due as well as
what was due from himself to rank and
authority.
Repelling familiarity, he confined his
affection and fellowship with the dscrimina-
of any, and had beauty Of person which
caused the gravest errors as to his origin and
fortune. a.s
TIE officers thought he was of some
superior family, brought into the field as a
correspondent by his literary nature and
indisposition to be ruled according to the
tight discipline of mixed regular and vol.
unteer service.
In point of fact, he had been rejected by
the board of military examination of his
native State when he applied for an officers
commission, as both too young and too
defective in vital strength. So he had come
into the army as not of it, merely a news
paper attendant, and his wounded pride gave
touch of haughtiness to his bearing which
increased his extraordinary personal beauty,
while those who had the delicacy to gain
his confidence found that womanly spirit
of wit, joyousness and chivalry resided
there in bonds of some kind which
made him the sincerest sympathy. They
were the balls and chains which con-
fined the Golden Quill.
He had no other resort for bis livelihood
than by his pen, and graceful as that pen
was, 1t worked slow and painfully upon the
lightning rod Of high mettle, real poverty
and slender physique.
He and his sister inherited an affection of
the spine from q bunchback father, while
brother and sister drew from a beautiful
mother, who was of French descent, hair and